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KING PROTEA It is the national flower of South Africa, just one among the many spectacular members of the large family of flowering plants named after Proteus, a Greek god capable of changing his shape at will. Scientists fear that more than a third of all Proteaceae species could disappear...
...make a famous prosciutto. To qualify, chairs would have to be made locally and meet stringent quality standards. Each hallmarked chair would be numbered for authenticity. "The first thing we need to do in this global world is to have an identity. If we don't, we'll disappear," says Fabrizio Mansutti, president of Promosedia, a local trade association that is sponsoring the plan...
...annual National People's Congress, which ended last week, former National Bureau of Statistics director Li Deshui was scathingly critical of government policies that give foreign firms preferential tax treatment in return for investment, and warned against allowing foreign companies to make "malicious acquisitions" until "China's national industries disappear." The China Daily newspaper?the English-language mouthpiece of the Party?later picked up the theme, warning that foreign companies could gain monopolies in China, noting that Microsoft controlled "95% of its market...
...Sunni men whose bodies have turned up at the sewage plant in southeast Baghdad since late December. Men in police uniforms and vehicles routinely travel through the city in daylight hours with bodies in the back of trucks for disposal at the sewage plant, he said. Prisoners often disappear, Burke said, because they're picked up at night and no one has an accurate account of who is arrested and where they are taken. "The Special Police Commandos," he said, using their old name, "are most definitely out of control...
...There remain many questions Webb would love to answer - the prints disappear under a large dune, and results from work with ground-penetrating radar last year suggest the site, perhaps the remnants of a series of ponds, extends far beneath it. "They were in a hurry," he says of the hunters, "and I'd love to catch up with them." He believes the tracks were probably made within a matter of months and preserved when protective layers of silty clay covered the muddy sediment. And it's likely that more tracks remain on several underlying layers. "It's like...